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The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life by Julia Cameron My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is well on its way to being a classic and an essential rite of passage for anyone who wants to write for pleasure or professionally. Julia Cameron has set herself the mission [...]
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As I have been delving recently into a tattered folder of over 50 poems I wrote between 1994 and 2003, I have had a strange sense of reading my own soul’s history. Most of these poems, that I thought were almost perfect at the time, now make me wince and cringe with their sentiments; but [...]
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I have in front of me a remarkable and unique work of art created in 1994 and given to my sister and I as a Christmas present at the end of that year. Nowadays, this would be called an “Art Book” but this was created before the days when such projects were fashionable. I’m referring [...]
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Reflecting on the last year of creativity after having quit my full time job in order to pursue some creative stuff that had become too lively to be confined to evenings and weekends, I have learned a few lessons: 1. It Takes Longer Than You Think Firstly, until I tried to give myself over to [...]
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I can look back to a time when writing poetry was one of the main ways that I had for making sense of the world around me. The creative output from this time in my life actually staggers me – although sometimes I cringe at the quality – I was certainly prolific. I thought I’d [...]
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Accept that you will make mistakes as everyone does. If mistakes are so inevitable would it not be better to incorporate them into your creative process and use them as opportunities to be exploited rather than set-backs or even fatal flaws in the project. The ever wise Dorye Roettger famously said, “There are no problems [...]
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